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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 73 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

All the big adult sites will probably just die or at least shrivel in popularity. Most Europeans simply will not use whatever "tell Brussels or London where or what what you are watching" option is. In the place of the big sites there will be a billion shady and likely virus-lottery proxy sites whose only selling point is that they do not do age checking or require registration. Those then get occasionally smacked down by Brussels, just to be replaced with 10 more clones the by the next week. On the side piracy and vpns will thrive. Kids will not be protected nor will people's privacy, quality will be worse.

I would also bet that when the landscape decentralizes there will be a lot more cp, revenge and peep-videos and other illegal shit in the mix that will get through through the cracks since massive established sites had to actually fear shutdown and losing all revenue unless they had robust gatekeeping mechanisms. If Brussels wants your 2 month life-expectancy site dead anyway, because of it's only selling point of having to show id, then why really bother with the quality control of the material. Especially if site holder has no personal qualms about that stuff.

[–] Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago

I would also bet that when the landscape decentralizes there will be a lot more cp, revenge and peep-videos and other illegal shit in the mix

Oh, count on it. I remember the early days of the internet and file sharing. There was no validation or accountability and you really could stumble on some of the most terrible stuff without meaning to.

[–] hisao@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, even though I hate the whole thing, I can't deny it brings me joy to hear about "VPN use surge", centralized sites dying in favor of shady clones, etc. I'd take total wild west any day over somewhat-free-but-very-polite-mild-and-centralized status quo of yesterday's internet. The only problem is that there's no guarantee people actually go that wild. They already did with VPNs, but regarding big site alternatives - I'm not so sure.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 100 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Since the earliest days of the internet, governments have been scheming to gain control over the dissemination of content - to have authority over what people can and cannot see.

Autocracies like Russia, China and North Korea simply established censorships regimes, but the best that western governments have generally been able to do is ban content that is illegal in and of itself, like child porn. Their goal, all along, has been to establish systems by which to censor content that is not in and of itself illegal.

This is the most success they've had yet.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Haven't seen any age verification in BGP.

[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder what it was that made Pornhub cooperate this time around. Iirc in texas and france they just "left" instead of implementing the age verification.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 19 points 2 days ago

Maybe Britons are depraved porn fiends and spend so much that Pornhub can't afford to lose this market!

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[–] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech

You’ve read your last free article.

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[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I'll make my own internet... with blackjack

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ok, I have already been asked to enter a credit card to verify my age on yt a few times before. It was pretty annoying, really, given how much google already knows about me.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And you did this? I would just abandon the idea of seeing that video and move on with my life.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I...went around teehee (something like piped) :) I'll never give google access to any banking info, they already know too much.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

That's fine. The actual internet will still be here.

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